SO my favorite part of today, and possibly moment of my life is when two highschool girls who totally don't want to be out knocking door to door asking for donations and people to buy newspapers for the boy's and girl's club come to my door.
the following conversation occurs:
TRASHYTEENGIRL: "um, hi, are your parents home?"
ME: "uuhhhhh, i live here."
TTG: "you probably dont know what the boys and girls club is do you?"
ME: "uhhhh, yeah."
[in my brain, WHAT THE WHAT?!]
TTG: "so are your parents home?"
ME: "no, I live here, by myself."
TTG: "oh, you don't look like it...oops i just like, kicked your front porch."
[gee thanks, you're for sure gonna get a sale THAT way...]
ME: "thanks...uh I'm just leasing the property, otherwise I'd buy a newspaper- but I don't want to get charged forever for a newspaper I won't read in a year. thanks anyways and keep warm"
[girl looks at me so so so oddly]
The short dark haired girl with the worst haircut I've ever seen looks knowingly at her blond companion and back at me and smugly skulks off the porch.
I close the door, slide down onto my butt and laugh.
WHAT THE WHAT?!
I don't look like I'm twelve right? WHAT
DO I ACT LIKE THAT?!
okay, in her small ish defense- I was wearing black skinny jeans, a striped t shirt and a hoodie, but STILL
STILL!
JUST BECAUSE I DONT WEAR GOLD EYE MAKEUP OR HAVE FIVE HUNDRED HIDDEN PIERCINGS OR REALLY ANY MAKEUP AT ALL DOESN'T MAKE ME A TWEENAGER! And yeah, I love hannah montana. so WHAT.
And most of all, if you want to make a sale to anyone, don't stereotype them or assume anything outloud. That's just dense.
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Missed you. Oooo, you did good! The teenage publishing sales teams are dumped off in this community because we tend to be easy targets. Their prices are outragious and often, you never get the publication. It is a scam. It took me years to see though their thinly veiled deception--but, you see through them right away. Slam! You are an amazingly adult inpersonationer of a coed. I remember seeing you with Brandon the first Sunday you came to our house and I thought, "My goodness! That young lady is SO sophistocated!" You did good.
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